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Brady has been a personal tormentor of Dolphins fans (and Jets and Bills fans, too) since taking over for Drew Bledsoe in the 2001 season, winning 10 of 12 AFC East titles and compiling a 16-6 record against Miami. Brady has been even deadlier in recent history, winning six straight against the Dolphins and nine of 10 overall, including five wins by at least 21 points.

Well, sorry Dolphins fans, life isn’t going to get easier any time soon. According to Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, Brady, who turns 36 in August, signed a contract extension through the 2017 season, when he will be 40 years old.

That’s five more years, and 10 more games, that the Dolphins will have to face one of the league’s all-time great quarterbacks. And you know if Brady is sticking around for five more years, so is Bill Belichick, who is looking for at least one more Super Bowl title to add to his portfolio.

And in classic Patriots fashion, they signed Brady to a below-market deal, ostensibly to give them more salary cap space to re-sign Wes Welker and add other stars. According to King, Brady’s new deal will pay him $27 million over three years — about half of what he could command on the open market — and provides the Patriots with $15 million more salary cap space over the next two seasons. Per ESPN Boston, the contract guarantees Brady $33 million, and will pay him $57 million if he plays all five seasons.

Here is a look at Brady’s game-by-game performances against the Dolphins in his career. The Dolphins played him tough in his younger days, but he has absolutely owned Miami since 2007:

Two of his most memorable games came against Miami: The day in 2007 he threw for six touchdowns and compiled a perfect 158.3 passer rating in Miami, and the 517-yard thrashing on Monday Night Football to start the 2011 season, when he embarrassed the Dolphins with a 99-yard touchdown pass to Welker.

And now Brady’s not going anywhere for the next five years. At least.

2. Dolphins’ highest-paid players in 2012 provided poor value.

As guys such as Brady and Drew Brees have shown over the years, a player with a massive contract can still be a bargain if he is consistently leading his team to the playoffs and winning championships.

The highest-paid players on the Dolphins, though, didn’t live up to their worth in 2012. That’s according to Pro Football Focus, which is investigating the “performance-based value” of players on all 32 teams.

The Dolphins got great production out of some of their mid-priced talent, Cameron Wake (cap hit: $2.19 million), Reshad Jones ($540k) and Ryan Tannehill ($2.303m). And they didn’t get nearly enough impact from their three biggest cap numbers: Jake Long ($12.8m), Karlos Dansby ($11.325m) and Reggie Bush ($6m).

It’s an interesting list, and for the most part shows how drafting and developing your own talent is a far more effective way to build a team and manage the cap than binging on free agents (although a few free agents have been fairly decent bargains, including Randy Starks, Kevin Burnett and Richie Incognito).

Our one quibble with this list is with Matt Moore, listed as fifth-most overvalued. It’s true, Moore only played 56 snaps and cost $3.775m against the cap, but he more than proved his worth in Week 8 when he came off the bench to throw for 192 yards and a touchdown to help the Dolphins coast past the Jets, 30-9. The peace of mind Moore brought to the coaching staff each Sunday as being the best backup quarterback in the league was well worth the $3.775 million.

3. Forget about CB Dee Milliner.

The Dolphins might need a cornerback in the first round of the draft, especially if Sean Smith walks away in free agency. But the value might not fit the need, as Jeff Ireland likes to say, when the Dolphins pick 12th.

Only one cornerback entered the NFL Combine rated as a top-15 pick, and there’s no way the Dolphins are getting him now. The one knock against Alabama’s Dee Milliner, listed at 6-0 and 201 pounds and a key piece of Alabama’s championship-winning defense, was a possible lack of speed. But he answered any doubts on Tuesday by running unofficial 40 times of 4.31 and 4.37 at the Combine.

“Hello, top 10,” NFL Network Mike Mayock said after Milliner clocked the 4.31. Many believe the Lions, with the fifth pick, are a good bet to draft Milliner.

After him, only two other corners are even in the conversation for the first round, and more likely will be picked somewhere between 25-40: Mississippi State’s Johnthan Banks, and FSU’s Xavier Rhodes. Banks did himself no favors by running a 4.59 unofficially on Tuesday. Rhodes, meanwhile, could still vault himself into the conversation for the 12th pick — he stands 6-foot-2 and recorded a 40.5-inch vertical leap.